Lake Tourism: An Integrated Approach To Lacustrine Tourism Systems (Aspects of Tourism) [Paperback]

C. Michael Hall (Editor), Tuija Harkonen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 11, 2006 | Series: Aspects of Tourism

Lakes are an essential element of some of the world's most popular tourism destinations. However, increased pressure from visitors and the tourism industry, as well as from other, sometimes competing, land and water uses has made the sustainable development of lakes increasingly problematic. This book represents the first attempt to bring together some of the key elements of lake tourism within a single volume, in order to present the urgent need for an integrated approach to lacustrine tourism systems management. The book presents comprehensive overviews of lake tourism, including branding and marketing, visitor management and planning, historical and cultural dimensions, and environmental quality. The volume is international in scope with cases from Europe, North America and Oceania. The book concludes by noting that tourism needs to be established as a complimentary land and water use, at a time when lakes and their watersheds are facing challenges in the form of climate and environmental change, increasing numbers of visitors, as well as an overall increase in competing demands for water.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book thus represents without doubt the most comprehensive volume about tourism and recreation in lacustrine areas yet. -- Michael Lück, Editor-in-Chief, Tourism in Marine Environments

This is a 'must read' collection of essays for anyone interested in lake tourism. -- Bill Bramwell, Sheffield Hallam University

About the Author

C. Michael Hall is a Professor in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Docent, Department of Geography, Oulu University, Finland. Co-editor of the journal Current Issues in Tourism, he has wide-ranging interests with recent work focusing on environmental, rural and gastronomic change. Tuija Harkonen is an Education Planner and Project Coordinator at the Savonlinna Institute for Regional Development and Research, University of Joensuu, Finland. She has extensive experience in project management and planning in relation to lake and nature-based tourism in the European context.

Product Details

• Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters (May 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845410408
• ISBN-13: 978-1845410407
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,952,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael is currently Professor in Marketing in the Department of Management, joining the department at the start of 2007. He is also currently Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; Visiting Professor in the Business School, Linneaus University, Kalmar, Sweden; and a Visiting Professor at the Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam, UK. He is also a frequent visitor to the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Umeå University (from which he received an honorary doctorate in 2008) and the School of Service Management at Lund Helsingborg campus, both in Sweden. He has also previously held positions at the University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University, University of Canberra and the University of New England. He has also previously been an Honorary Professor in the Department of Marketing, Stirling University, Scotland. His doctorate is in geography from the University of Western Australia, from which he also received an honours degree in politics. His masters is from the faculty of environmental studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in geography/resource management.

Michael has longstanding interests in tourism and voluntary temporary mobility, regional development, environmental history, and sustainability with current research dealing with such issues as place branding and marketing (including Santa Claus), power and policy making in tourism, steady-state and ecological economic perspectives on destinations and places, servicescapes, economic geography and tourism mobility, conservation and environmental and climate change, event impacts, international studies, and the use of tourism as an economic development and conservation mechanism. More recently he has been undertaking research on wine and food marketing and gastronomy, which has required strenuous research in the field, this is particularly focused on development of local economies, network relationships and social capital, food miles, biosecurity, and farmers markets. He is the author or editor of over 55 books as well as author of over 350 journal articles and book chapters and is active in a number of international research associations such as ATLAS and the IGU Tourism Commission.